Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Valiant has been the response of Italian husbands to Signer Benito Mussolini's exhortations of last year that they should beget more bambini...
...many Sem Bennelli's* L'Amore is the most perfect of librettos. It is the story of Blind Archibaldo who gained a kingdom and lost his soul. He has a valiant son, Manfredo. and the fair Fiora for his son's wife. He had chosen her himself, brought her as hostage from the enemy's country, but she came loving the young Prince Avito and kindness could not make her a faithful wife. Blind men see but Fiora did not know. His still eyes saw her first at dawn sending her lover out through the terrace, then at twilight...
...tense grew religious and patriotic fervor, that Belgian papers reported the fainting of numerous grief-stricken British War-mothers, War-widows, and War-sisters, who were quickly revived in first aid stations provided for that purpose. Solemn and inspirational was the chanting of 0 Valiant Hearts Who to Your Glory Came! Finally, when soft, repressed sobbing had become general, the Primate of England cried, referring to the War: "Was it all worth while? Here at this gate let there be no faltering in the answer, 'Yes, a thousand times...
...common knowledge is the frequent and valiant toping of champagne and swizzling of spirits by the President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Ghazi or "Victorious One" (TIME, Feb. 21, 1927). Therefore only the mildest ripple of surprise was occasioned when Kemal addressed a Turkish audience in Constantinople, last week, in part as follows...
...Nobel Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). In the House of Commons, last week, Sir Austen bared his imperfect teeth in a wolfish smile when Opposition back benchers shouted that he was "Bullying Egypt!" With the crisis safely passed, however, he beamingly announced that Empire sea hounds Warspite and Valiant had been ordered back to their kennel at Malta...